Tyshawn Harris Lane's 4 Axioms

In this book called Landscapes of the Sacred by Lane, he talks about these four axioms. The first axiom is "sacred place is not chosen, it chooses" which basically means that for a place to become sacred people do not say I claim this mountain sacred. It doesn't work like that, the place has to prove to you that it is sacred. It will find some way to communicate with you and when that happens it has become sacred. The second axiom is "sacred place is ordinary place, ritually made extraordinary" which means that and ordinary place will stay ordinary unless people perform rituals on it. The third axiom is "sacred place can be tred upon without being entered" which means that every place can be walk on or to without being entered and how you eneter a place is by having something happen there that was expected. The fourth and last axiom is "the impulse of sacred place is both centripetal and centrifugal, local and universal" which means that the experience you had while at a certain place happens there and once you leave it will always be with you.